The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 22 of 55 / 1625-29 / Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.

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Contents of Volume XXII

• [Preface] 9
• [Documents of 1625]
  • [Report of the Spanish Council of State on the appointment of a governor for the Philippines]. Madrid, March 7. 27
  • [Royal decree granting income to the Society of Jesus]. Felipe IV; Madrid, June 1. 42
  • [Letter from the archbishop of Manila to Felipe IV]. Miguel García Serrano; July 25. 45
  • [Royal festivities at Manila]. Diego de Rueda y Mendoza; Manila, August 1. 50
  • [Letter to Felipe IV]. Fernando de Silva; Manila, August 4. 62
• [Documents of 1626]
  • [Letter from the archbishop to Felipe IV]. Miguel García Serrano; Manila, July 25. 83
  • [Letter to Felipe IV]. Fernando de Silva; Manila, July 30. 93
  • [Letter from the sisters of St. Clare to Felipe IV]. Jeronima de la Asunsion, and others; Manila, July 31. 104
  • [Petition for aid to the seminary of San Juan de Letran]. Juan Geronimo de Guerrero; Manila, August 1. 108
  • [Royal decrees]. Felipe IV; Madrid, June–October. 112
  • [Military affairs of the islands]. [Unsigned]; Sevilla, 1626 (but written at Cebú) 110
• • [Importance of the Philippines]. Martin Castaño; [undated; 1627?] 125
  • [Relation of 1626]. [Unsigned and undated; ca. 1627] 130
  • [Letter to Tavora]. Felipe IV; Madrid, September 3. 146
  • [Laws regarding the Sangleys]. [From Recopilación de leyes de las Indias]; 1594–1627. 151
  • [Decrees regarding the religious]. Felipe IV; Madrid, May–November. 160
  • [Decrees regarding the Chinese]. Felipe IV; Madrid, September 10 and November 19. 164
  • [Inadvisability of a Spanish post on the island of Formosa]. Juan Cevicos; Madrid, December 20. 168
• [Documents of 1627]
  • [Relation of 1627–28]. [Unsigned]; Manila, July, 1628. 181
  • [Report of appointments made by the governor]. Juan Niño de Tavora; Cavite, August 2, 1628. 217
  • [Letters to Felipe IV]. Juan Niño de Tavora; August 4, 1628. 246
  • [Economic reasons for suppressing the silk trade of China in Spain and its colonies]. Juan Velazquez Madr^co; October 7, 1628. 279
  • [Decrees regarding the Chinese]. Felipe IV; Madrid, June, 1628–March, 1629. 287
  • [Relations of 1628–29]. Hernando Estrada, and others; Manila, etc., 1628–29. 293
• [Documents of 1628–1629]
• [Bibliographical Data] 321